Brian Hortsch Email & Phone Number

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

Serves as an expert resource on external financial reporting, financial analysis, and scenario modeling. Responsible for ensuring adequate audit trail, analysis, reporting and documentation. Designs and leads department staff in achieving assigned analytical and process studies to achieve Health Plan objectives. Operates with a high degree of autonomy, exercising appropriate judgment in response to dynamic business needs.

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

• Explained, forecasted, and narrated to supply chain savings programs in the Americas.• Focal point for finance results between outsourced suppliers.• Subject matter expert on outsourced supplier business model, invoicing and reconciliations• Forecasted outsourced supplier material and LOH costs on a monthly basis. Forecasted costs were consistently within +/- 2%• Quoted supply chain costs for custom service contracts with customers such as Subway, AMTRAK, H&R Block, and the IRS. The supply chain costs were critical in HP successful contract bids.• Lead finance sub-team business model change that moved $2M in inventory from HP’s books.• Accrued for expected customer induced damage and non-returns expenses to create greater financial predictability.• Ensured that business controls are in place to approve supplier invoices, simplified financial processes and maintained data integrity.• Created and documented supplier invoice reconciliations processes.• Trained teams in India, Costa Rica, Mexico and China on invoice reconciliations.• Oversaw invoice reconciliations.• Provided strategic business decisions such as supplier selection, fundamental business changes and IT development.• Deep dive customer satisfaction survey results to identify areas for improvement and drive improvement in overall customer satisfaction metrics.• Tracked project savings and compared actual savings with expected savings. Communicated headwinds and tailwinds on a monthly basis.• Managed inventory ownership model, invoicing processes, and AR/AP issues with outsourced partners.

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

• Oversaw budget and provide transparency to complex financial flows that have an annual expense of $100M.• Provided business and financial guidance that supports post-sales support for commercially marketed products• Drove forecasting improvements and consistency through process improvements and reporting accuracy.• Oversaw month end closing of accounts in compliance with HP accounting practices, SOX, and GAAP.• Forecasted warranty expenses monthly.• Bridged Americas quarterly results to the current quarter budget, final quarterly forecast, prior quarter results and prior fiscal year corresponding quarter.• Led monthly reviews of monthly results with operations and quarterly reviews with senior leaders.• Established invoicing and reconciliation procedures for new outsourced partners.• Simplified invoicing and reconciliation processes.

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

• Forecasted repair and part fulfillment volumes, and managed blanket purchase orders to pay for these activities• Oversaw vendor invoice reconciliations done by off shored teams in India and Costa Rica and approve the invoices for payment. These invoices totaled more than $3M each month.• Accrued vendor invoices that had not been submitted to HP by the end of the month, and track vendor payment/credit activities.• Interfaced without sourced supplier’s finance department to resolve any AR/AP issues. Collected $7.1M in past due receivables and brought to current 18 months of reconciliation activity.